Iddybud Journal (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
[..] If the Congressional critics of the bailout want to do some lasting good, they should come back in January — after approving the bailout now — with a series of tough measures to improve governance and inject more fairness in the economy. [..] [..] "Wall Street urgently needs to undertake its own housecleaning, for the public revulsion toward it undermines its own long-term interests.
The New SteveSilver.net (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The Times columnist wrote the following today on the op-ed page referring to the Asian economic crisis of the late '90s:Just as in the U.S. today, most Japanese did not initially appreciate how devastating a banking crisis could be to...
Shapely Prose (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nicholas Kristof: The racism is difficult to measure, but a careful survey completed last month by Stanford University, with The Associated Press and Yahoo, suggested that Mr. Obama’s support would be about six percentage points higher if he were white. That’s significant but surmountable. Most of the lost votes aren’t those of dyed-in-the-wool racists. Such racists account [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesNicholas D. Kristof Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. On the contrary, the evidence is that Senator Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed “racism...
